What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these...

Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.

Healing doesn’t just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.

That lady has a piano.It’s nice, but it’s not the running of riversOr the murmuring trees make ..Who needs a piano?It’s better to have earsAnd love Nature.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.

I’m one of my sensations.

The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every...

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I don’t know how...

The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.

Don’t live by my words, don’t die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

But if God is the trees and the flowersAnd the hills and the moonlight and the sun,Why should I call him God?I call him flowers and trees and hills and sun and moonlight;Because if he...

sometimes forgiving someone it’s not because he’s really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility.

Fall in lovewith the energyof the morningstrace your fingers along the lullof the afternoonstake the spirit of the eveningsin your armskiss it deeply and thenmake loveto the tranquilityof the nights.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Living in harmony with one another brings inner tranquility

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!

Lightly, lightly, very lightly,A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

It occurred to me that no words by the tongue of man can express the simplicities of a quiet land, so I returned to the river.

Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to ‘reboot’ your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!

The Tejo runs down from SpainAnd the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.Everybody knows that.But not many people know the river of my villageAnd where it comes fromAnd where it’s going.And so, because it...

A quiet soul, peaceful life

I was born subject like others to errors and defects,But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..Never to the defect of...

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little...

Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances...

Let’s be simple and calm,Like brooks and trees,And God will love us by makingBeautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,And give us greenness in his spring,And a river for us to go to...

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands and feet were numb, not with cold but with a sultry torpor. Thoughts...

All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings

Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause – and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you...

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it...

The great secret in salam is it brings love, tranquility and peace to the person receiving the greeting.

And when the night is cloudy there is still a light that shines on me, shine until tomorrow, let it be

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Tranquility is the old man’s milk.

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one’s heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for...

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be the sooner over. On the contrary, you...

A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It’s just trees.Row and the plural trees aren’t things, they’re names.

What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he...

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in...